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MINNEAPOLIS â Kelly Jo McDonnell, after growing up in the shadow of her Hall of Fame father Jim McDonnell in Royal, continues making a name for herself in the broadcast journalism world after recently winning an Emmy in November for her production work on âMinnesota Bound,â which airs on KARE-11, the NBC affiliate in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The award winning production piece, a Boundary Waters Mining special, won in the category of public/current/community affairs program.
âWe called it âThe Boundary Waters at Risk,â and it highlighted the Minnesota mining quandary of Twin Metals wanting to mine copper right on the edge of the Boundary Waters,â she explained. âWe covered both sides â can they mine safely, etc. Boy, did we find plenty of opinions ⦠mainly up in Ely, Minnesota, where the whole debate is a pretty hot topic.
Minnesota s Okee Dokee Brothers decline Grammy nomination over lack of diversity
The group is nominated for Best Children s Album. They and others in the category have declined their nominations.
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The Minnesota-based The Okee Dokee Brothers and others have declined their Grammy nomination this year over lack of diversity.
The group is among four others nominated for Best Children s Album. In a post on Facebook this week, the Okee Dokee Brothers said all of the nominees are white and all but one are male.
The Okee Dokee Brothers said they along with Alastair Moock and Dog on Fleas sent a letter to the Recording Academy declining their nominations and asking their names be removed from the ballot and the academy not vote for them.
It is amazing the sheer variety of places and things that can supposedly be haunted. Haunted houses, hospitals, hotels, skyscrapers, abandoned places, tunnels, beaches, mountains, caves, forests, as well as haunted cars, paintings, dolls, jewelry, even wedding dresses, it seems like there is no end to what ghosts can attach themselves to. One type of place that seems to not really fit in with what one might consider to be a traditionally haunted place would be a state fair. After all, these are places for family fun and good times, where everyone is walking around enjoying the many attractions and their minds are likely not anywhere near thinking about ghosts and paranormal weirdness. Yet, in the state of Minnesota there is a major state fair, one of the largest there is, which has somehow managed to draw to itself numerous tales of ghosts and hauntings among all of the joy and revelry.